2014 Branding Fiasco: UL-Lafayette or UL-L (SBC Reference Guide)

[Hammer58]

You know he will crawfish this whole issue. I know this from how we crawfished the whole name issue at Monroe game. It is Louisiana to me forever. Suck my hyphen.

A local vendor needs to make some t-shirts with this mantra. Would make appropriate apparel to wear at the big televised basketball game against WKU

[basinbear]

Again....when we decided to hand them ANY version of "ULL" it was over. The media, as I stated yesterday 2 hours before game time, ran with this. the media, as far as they are concerned, have been officially told that ULL is legal and acceptable and a hyphen is not going to matter....good luck getting this fixed....

[Hammer58]

Hey, Aaron, is this your example of the a News Star "moving away" from the use of ULL?

http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/2...more-UL-Cajuns

____ that cancerous skank Tabitha.

[SlappyCajun]

Exactly. UL-L as proper usage has been retweeted by national sports entities. Aaron Martin's statement alone will not change that.

[basinbear]

AARONMARTIN@LOUISIANA.EDU

[NewsCopy]

Read the law, Hyphens are illegal for any full blown representation of the school. They gave one single exception included the full blown representation of the name using initials.

Louisiana-Lafayette is illegal as well.

The way it is written "at" is the most important aspect of the law.

D. All uses of the name "University of Louisiana" must be followed by the word "at" and the institution's geographic location. No typographic variations within the name are permitted. The word "at" must be no less than 50% and the geographic location must not exceed 100% nor be less than 80% of the University of Louisiana name. Any institutional use of "University of Louisiana" without the "at" and geographic location is prohibited.

[NewsCopy]

The caveat: The universities had to attach their municipalities to the name to avoid the appearance that no one school was a flagship within the system. “The use of the University of Louisiana abbreviation ‘UL’ and/or the phrase ‘U of L ...

The rest of the story ...

[Hammer58]

AARONMARTIN@LOUISIANA.EDU

Is that it? Thanks. I looked at both RaginCajuns.com and at Louisiana.edu and could not find any results for a search of his name or in staff directories.

Sent him an e-mail with the link to today's News Star with The Skank's article.

[basinbear]

Read the law, Hyphens are illegal for any full blown representation of the school. They gave one single exception included the full blown representation of the name using initials.

UL Lafayette is illegal as well.

The way it is written "at" is the most important aspect of the law.

Louisiana Ragin Cajuns or Louisiana is not illegal when used as a acronym for the Athletics teams of the University.

[RaisingCajun08]

We are Louisiana Lafayette